Reverse Payment Settlements Return to the Supreme Court

January 10, 2011Patent, Settlementpaid, Supreme CourtDennis Crouch

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Patent Law Exam 2010: Part II

January 10, 2011Law School, PatentpaidDennis Crouch

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Guest Post: Microsoft v. i4i – Is the Sky Really Falling?

January 9, 2011Guest Post, Infringement, Invalidity, Patent, Prior Artanticipation, Inequitable Conduct, paidDennis Crouch

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Tracing the Quote: Everything that can be Invented has been Invented

January 6, 2011Patent, Patentable Subject MatterpaidDennis Crouch

Charles H. Duell was the Commissioner of US patent office in 1899. Mr. Deull's most famous attributed utterance is that "everything that can be invented has been invented." Most patent attorneys have also heard that the quote is apocryphal.

In his 1989 article, Samuel Sass traced the quote back to 1981 book titled "The Book of Facts and Fallacies" by Chris Morgan and David Langford. Sass did his work well before Gore created the Internets, so I decided to take a fresh look at the research using Google. The following chart was created based on Google's electronic compilation of 12 million books. The chart shows the frequency that the phrase "everything that can be invented" shows up in the corpus, grouped by the year of publication of each book.

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In re Glatt Air Techniques, Inc.: Single Embodiment Commercial Success

January 6, 2011CAFC, Obviousness, Patent, Pharma, Rantanen, Reexaminationobviousness, paidJason Rantanen

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Judge Moore Weighs In on Vacatur of Invalidity Opinions

January 6, 2011CAFC, Inequitable Conduct, Invalidity, Patent, Patent Cases 2011, RantanenFederal Circuit En Banc, Inequitable Conduct, paidJason Rantanen

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In re Microsoft: Presence Created Solely for Purposes of Litigation Does Not Support Venue

January 5, 2011CAFC, Jurisdiction, Patent, Patent Cases 2011, Rantanenanticipation, paid, VenueJason Rantanen

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Uniloc v. Microsoft: The CAFC Rejects the 25 Percent Rule

January 4, 2011Damages, Infringement, Invalidity, Patent, Patent Cases 2011, Rantanen, SoftwareAbstract Idea, Claim Construction, Licenses, paid, Subject Matter Eligibility, VenueJason Rantanen

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Patent Law Final Exam – Part 1

January 3, 2011Law School, Patentobviousness, paidDennis Crouch

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WiAV Solutions v. Motorola: Clarifying the Meaning of “Exclusive Licensee”

December 27, 2010Infringement, License, Patent, Patent Cases 2010, RantanenLicenses, paidJason Rantanen

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Judge Kathleen O’Malley Confirmed to the Federal Circuit

December 24, 2010CAFC, Patent, RantanenpaidJason Rantanen

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Prometheus Laboratories v. Mayo: The Broad Scope of Statutory Subject Matter

December 22, 2010CAFC, Patent, Patent Cases 2010, Patentable Subject Matter, Pharma, RantanenpaidJason Rantanen

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Akamai v. Limelight: Joint Infringement Requires an Agency Relationship or a Contractual Obligation

December 20, 2010Claim Construction, Infringement, Patent, Patent Cases 2010, Rantanenai, Claim Construction, paidJason Rantanen

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The Federal Circuit’s Use of Legal Scholarship

December 16, 2010CAFC, Patent, RantanenpaidJason Rantanen

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In re Vistaprint Ltd.: Venue Transfer Denied

December 15, 2010CAFC, Jurisdiction, Patent, Patent Cases 2010, RantanenFederal Circuit En Banc, paid, VenueJason Rantanen

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Old-School Submarine Patents

December 14, 2010Patent, Patent ApplicationspaidDennis Crouch

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Patent Term: Comparing 17-years-from-issue to 20-years-from-filing

December 12, 2010Patent, Patent Applications, Patent ProsecutionpaidDennis Crouch

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Research Corp. v. Microsoft: Section 101 and Process Claims

December 8, 2010Inequitable Conduct, Infringement, Patent, Patent Cases 2010, Patentable Subject Matter, RantanenAbstract Idea, anticipation, Inequitable Conduct, paid, Subject Matter Eligibility, Written DescriptionJason Rantanen

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Intellectual Ventures Takes First Overt Legal Actions to Enforce its Mammoth Patent Portfolio

December 8, 2010Infringement, License, PatentLicenses, paidDennis Crouch

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Patently-O Bits and Bytes: Getting Personal

December 7, 2010Bits and Bytes, PatentpaidDennis Crouch

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